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India Gate behind its flower beds, Delhi
DelhiIndia Gate behind its flower beds
People's Square (Narodni trg), Zadar
ZadarPeople's Square (Narodni trg)

Photos: Delhi by shalender kumar, Pexels License; Zadar by Böhringer Friedrich, CC BY-SA 2.5, cropped.

Delhi or Zadar?

Our verdict in twelve categories, each scored against the same fixed benchmark cities, and the climate month by month, so you can choose for your trip.

Choose Delhi for

  • shopping
  • food and drink
  • prices

What lies behind each score is written up on Delhi’s own page.

Choose Zadar for

  • beaches
  • nature and the outdoors
  • families

What lies behind each score is written up on Zadar’s own page.

Scoreboard

Twelve categories on one fixed scale from 0 to 100. The shaded stretch is the gap between the two.

Beaches & swimming. Delhi 4, Zadar 72: Zadar leads by 68 points.
Food & drink. Delhi 84, Zadar 45: Delhi leads by 39 points.
Culture & sights. Delhi 85, Zadar 55: Delhi leads by 30 points.
Nightlife. Delhi 44, Zadar 38: Delhi leads by 6 points.
Nature & outdoors. Delhi 20, Zadar 82: Zadar leads by 62 points.
Day trips. Delhi 68, Zadar 70: Zadar leads by 2 points.
Good for families. Delhi 32, Zadar 55: Zadar leads by 23 points.
Getting around. Delhi 55, Zadar 58: Zadar leads by 3 points.
Shopping & style. Delhi 78, Zadar 27: Delhi leads by 51 points.
Affordability. Delhi 90, Zadar 52: Delhi leads by 38 points.
Live music & performing arts. Delhi 55, Zadar 28: Delhi leads by 27 points.
Wellness & relaxation. Delhi 25, Zadar 35: Zadar leads by 10 points.
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What lies behind each score is written up on the two cities’ own pages: Delhi and Zadar.

Your match

Pick a travel style or drag the sliders, and both match scores follow your weighting.

Too close to call, 2 points apart

Delhi
53match

Wins on shopping and food and drink with your weighting.

Zadar
51match

Wins on beaches and nature and the outdoors with your weighting.

What matters to you?

When should you go?

Pick your month. The climate figures are measured averages, not a forecast.

Delhi in July

36 °Cdaytime high
28 °Cnight-time low
190 mmrain in the month
4 hsunshine a day
No seasea
14 hdaylight a day

Zadar in July

31 °Cdaytime high
18 °Cnight-time low
29 mmrain in the month
No recordsunshine a day
24 °Csea
15 hdaylight a day

Daytime high, °C

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Rainfall in the month, mm

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Where the figures come from

Zadar has no rain gauge within 25 km of the centre, so its rainfall comes from a gridded climate dataset read at the city rather than from a gauge further away.

Temperature and rainfall are climate normals, averaged over the years shown. Delhi: 1991-2020 normals, New Delhi / Safdarjung (9.4 km from centre). Zadar: 1999-2020 (rainfall 1991-2020) normals, Zadar / Zemunik (9.9 km from centre).

Before you go

MeasureDelhiZadar
Official languageHindi, EnglishCroatian
CurrencyIndian Rupee (INR)Euro (EUR)
SocketsCM230 V, 50 HzCF230 V, 50 Hz
Driving sideLeftRight
Time zoneUTC+5:30UTC+1, UTC+2 in summer
Emergency number108 or 112112
Elevation221 m5 m
Main airportIndira Gandhi International Airport (DEL)17 km from centre144 non-stop destinationsZadar Airport (ZAD)10 km from centre66 non-stop destinations
Public holidays this year-14 days

By the numbers

MeasureDelhiZadar
City population26,495,00070,779
People per km²18,962-
Museums within 10 km231
UNESCO World Heritage sites within 50 km42
Swim season, months above 21 °C-4 months

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Sources

Structured data from Wikidata (CC0). Weather data by Meteostat. Meteorological data provided by NOAA, DWD and others. Rainfall where no rain gauge is within 25 km is from the TerraClimate 1991-2020 climatology (Abatzoglou et al. 2018, Scientific Data), read at the city. Airport data from OurAirports (public domain). Exchange rates via Frankfurter, based on European Central Bank reference rates. Non-stop route lists from the "Airlines and destinations" tables on English Wikipedia airport articles, by Wikipedia contributors, reused under CC BY-SA 4.0. Currency from the ISO 4217 register maintained by SIX, cross-checked against country data from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0). Price level from World Bank open data (PPP conversion factor for private consumption and official exchange rate), CC BY 4.0. Time zones from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0); clock offsets computed from the IANA time zone database. Sea surface temperature from NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA Physical Sciences Laboratory. Tourism statistics from Eurostat, © European Union, reused under CC BY 4.0. Public holidays from Nager.Date (MIT). Daylight hours computed from each destination's latitude using the NOAA solar position algorithm.

Category scores are our editorial verdict under rubric v3, each placed against the same fixed benchmark cities; the climate figures are measured. How the scores are set. Snapshot generated 2026-10-31. Daily budgets are estimates from country price levels.